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Product Identifiers
PublisherEuropa Editions, Incorporated
ISBN-101933372206
ISBN-139781933372204
eBay Product ID (ePID)57048493
Product Key Features
Book TitleMargherita Dolce Vita
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorStefano Benni
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal853.914
Synopsis"A master of political satire infused with a dose of the fantastical."-World Literature Today Stefano Benni's enormously popular and distinctive mix of the absurd and the satiri-cal has made him one of Italy's most important and best-loved novelists. This is his twelfth best-selling book of fiction. Fifteen-year-old Margherita lives with her eccentric family on the outskirts of town, a semi-urban wilderness peopled by gypsies, illegal immigrants, and no end of bizarre characters: a reassuring and fertile playground for an imaginative little girl like Margherita. But one day, a gigantic, black cube shows up next door. Her new neighbors have arrived, and they're destined to ruin everything., Out of nowhere, a black glass cube appears in front of Margherita's house surrounded by an aseptic fake garden and a tall hedge. The Del Benes have arrived, bearers of 'the new', of blessed joys of consumption. Friends or fiends? Margherita's family falls under a kind of dark spell to which nobody is immune., A stirring picture of the powerful social forces of conformity and consumerism. The crushing weight of black glass and concrete development, TV, aircon and glossy magazine living meets the age-old Italian qualities of eccentricity, good food, tolerance and a love of the countryside and nature. All told through the endearing persona of an overweight high school girl with a defective heart and a love for writing charmingly bad poetry.
LC Classification NumberPQ4862.E565
